Akhil Reed Amar is a Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he is a leading scholar of U.S. constitutional law.

His areas of expertise include originalism, the U.S. Bill of Rights, and criminal procedure.

He is recognized as the second most-cited American legal scholar under age 70, according to a 2021 study by Fred R. Shapiro. His work has been cited in more than fifty U.

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